Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Andrew Demetriou

We always hear talk of clubs trying to sign new members but one of the biggest battles they have is to retain all of their members from the previous year.

John Adams

The point is made we're still fighting this battle. It's not as dynamic a battle as people being hosed down ... but it's still happening.

Jamie Langenbrunner

We're in a tight race right now and points are huge. We're in a battle to get in the playoffs and we've got 14 games left. We need to get some points. You can't get in playing like this. We're not winning.

Benjamin E. Mays

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

Charlaine Harris

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

Leonard Boswell

While many things have changed since 1963, we still must continue the battle to ensure that all Americans are treated as equals.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

We're getting the wrestlers ready for the battles at the end of the season. We're happy to make the playoffs. That's always a team goal. But we have some guys with bigger goals.

Jon Gruden

We're going to play the regulars a little bit. They'll give way early to a lot of guys who we think are in key battles at certain positions, and guys who are young players who we think need game time.

We're going to get after it in practice and then be ready to go on Tuesday night. We're going to take a look at our injuries and see who can and can't go, and then go battle and try to get back up here next weekend.

Brian Rolston

When we came into the season, I don't think there were a whole lot of people who thought we were going to be close to a playoff position, maybe including the organization. We have to battle every night to get there. It's going to be tough, still. But we can be there.

When we can show direct battle damage, it's much easier for me to get funding.

Wow, 15-for-15, I didn't know that, but I knew we were shooting pretty good. What a great game. Just a battle and a terrific battle all night long. Plymouth is a great team, and they're just so physical, and everything we had, we had to earn it.

We're still relatively small. But I think that's going to start to change because they're opening a new middle school next year in Geneva so we'll have two middle school programs. (Numbers) have always been an uphill battle for us, and then someone gets hurt and that makes it tough with a hole in the lineup.

We're still in the middle of it, but in a lot of ways Thomas has broken through. I don't think it was easy. On a personal level, he had to have a persevering spirit. It was a battle of the heart.

We're still fighting an uphill battle in Tennessee, no about it.

John Stevens

We're still feeling this thing out. The thing I love about hockey is it's a man's game played like men, and you go out there and battle and play the game hard, and that's the way it should be. As long as they let us engage in the battles at the net, in the corners and the straight-up stuff -- the stuff around the waist, they're gonna call. We're all figuring this out right now, and hopefully it'll get better as things go along.

We're still behind the 8-ball. This is a small step toward where we want to go. It was good to see that it's going to be a long series. We're going to battle and we're not going to lie down.

We've got Battle Mountain on Saturday, and I think that is a game we can go into and be competitive. We want to improve as a group and the standings will take care of themselves.

Edgar Degas

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

We bring out the best in them and they bring out the best in us. It's always a battle on the ice.

Maurice Greene

We're going to meet a lot of times this season, and it's going to be a battle each and every time we step on a track. We're all competitors, and we're all going to put on a show.

With two strikes, we?re just trying to battle and put it in play and, when you do, good things can sometimes happen.

John Carroll

We're just really close, ... Ever since freshman year, we've gotten closer and closer, especially through the battle back and forth. We motivate each other on the sidelines. Everything's good when we're working together.

Jermaine Dye

We're just missing pitches. We've got to continue to battle and not put pressure on ourselves.

We're just inconsistent. Day-to-day, that's the battle we're facing. But that's my job; we have to try and find that consistency.

Chauncey Billups

We're battle tested. We're been in that situation so many times. We just had our confidence.